Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Kerri Ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer, holder and grower. She has written for the Guardian , BBC, RTE, Irish Times and others. She mentors and teaches worldwide. Her work currently explores ideas of 'one-amotherness', interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, for which she won the 2022 Butler Literary Award and was highly commended in the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, was published by Canongate in spring 2021. Cacophony of Bone was published by...See more

Kerri Ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer, holder and grower. She has written for the Guardian , BBC, RTE, Irish Times and others. She mentors and teaches worldwide. Her work currently explores ideas of 'one-amotherness', interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, for which she won the 2022 Butler Literary Award and was highly commended in the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, was published by Canongate in spring 2021. Cacophony of Bone was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in the same year. She lives in the west of Ireland with her family. See less